Changing lives: Critical reflections on the social work change programme for Scotland

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 510-532

  Ritchie, Anne ^a   Woodward, Rona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

21st Century Review; Modernization; Risk; Social workers

Indexed keywords

MODERNIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL WORK; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349319513     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018309105182     Document Type: Article

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